Number by catalogue:  Michel: 1625   Yvert: 1514   Scott: 1279   Gibbons: 1711  

Perforation type: 14 ½x13 ½

Subject:

6 dinars.

A reproduction of Lazar Lichenoski's painting "Water Mill"*

Additional:

*Lazar Ličenoski (Macedonian: Лазар Личеноски; Galicnik, 26 March 1901 – Skopje, 10 April 1964). He was one of the first Slavic expressionist painters and one of the most authentic Macedonian painters of landscape, in which he imported folk elements as well. He painted portraits also and works with fresco paintings and mosaics.

His style had developed in the context of the Ecole de Paris, which contrasted with the narrative models he had inherited from the Post-Byzantine tradition. In his mature work he introduced the idiom of Expressionism into modern Macedonian art. From 1928 up to 1941, his art featured full color expressionism with a high presence of Macedonian motives on his canvases.

The painting presented on the stamp most likely depicts not a water mill, but an irrigation wheel.

Topics: Irrigation and water wheels Mills in Art Watermills